Microsoft to Acquire Powerset 2 — We're excited to announce officially that Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Powerset. — Powerset has always been a small company with big dreams, with the ultimate goal of changing the way humans interact with computers through language.

AT&T announces iPhone 3G pricing plans — Finally, a piece of news we can actually do something with. AT&T today announced its pricing structure for the next iteration of Apple's iPhone. There's not much that's surprising here — new customers and those eligible for an upgrade will be able …

Gnip: Grand Central Station for the Social Web — Ping, ping, ping! That's the sound made day and night by the new social media technologies rapidly proliferating around the web... and the machines are getting tired. Polling for updates to user data streams, wishing they spoke the same language …

Spam experiment overloads inboxes — Surfing the web unprotected will leave the average web user with 70 spam messages each day, according to an experiment by security firm McAfee. — It invited 50 people from around the world, including five from the UK, to surf without spam filters.

Microsoft Seeks Partners For a New Run at Yahoo — Plan Would Lead To Effective Breakup; Yang's Second Thoughts — Microsoft Corp., positioning itself for a new run for Yahoo Inc.'s search business, has approached other media companies in recent days about joining it in a deal …

Amazon's Page Recommender: Foreshadowing A New Web Service? — Amazon is turning its personalization engine towards webpages. You can test it on your site via the new Page Recommender Widget (sorry if the link doesn't work you, it's only open to affiliates). The widget only considers pages on your website.

Mac OS X approaches 8 percent market share in June — If it's the first of the month, it's time for me to be accused of being an indentured servant of web metrics firm Net Applications. Nonetheless, data from thousands of web sites and millions of visitors make it at least possible to follow trends and …

Engadget's Ryan Block and Peter Rojas To Team On New Startup — Engadget's editor-in-chief Ryan Block will be leaving parent company AOL shortly, sources say, to launch a new startup. Partnering with him on the new company will be Peter Rojas, Engadget's former editor-in-chief (pictured left below, next to Block).

Amazon: Hey Spammers, Get Off My Cloud! — I am accustomed to receiving e-mail from Amazon.com, as I am a fiercely loyal customer who shops there quite frequently. But it took me by surprise this weekend to discover that that mounds of porn spam and junk e-mail laced with computer viruses …

Google Ad Deal Is Under Scrutiny — Yahoo Agreement Subject of Antitrust Probe, Sources Say — The Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck last month that would allow the Internet titan Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiry.